There is a form 4473 that has to be filled out and then you undergo a background check to verify that you are not a felon, have a restraining order, a history of domestic violence etc. If you order a gun online it doesn’t get shipped to your house but it goes to an FFL (gun stores federally allowed to do said paperwork) and the same process is done there before you can pick it up, usually for a small fee to the people at the FFL.
As long as the state laws allow for it (no wait periods, addtional hoops) and you don’t have a criminal history it can really be that simple. Most gun sales are done in like 30 minutes.
Technically as an individual I can sell a gun to anyone without doing a background check or paperwork but if that gun is used in a crime that is easily tracable back to me and my paper trail at the initial sale. There are new rules in place for the “private sale/gunshow loophole” to say when paperwork is mandatory but I haven’t read enough to have a good grasp of it
There is a form 4473 that has to be filled out and then you undergo a background check to verify that you are not a felon, have a restraining order, a history of domestic violence etc. If you order a gun online it doesn’t get shipped to your house but it goes to an FFL (gun stores federally allowed to do said paperwork) and the same process is done there before you can pick it up, usually for a small fee to the people at the FFL.
As long as the state laws allow for it (no wait periods, addtional hoops) and you don’t have a criminal history it can really be that simple. Most gun sales are done in like 30 minutes.
Technically as an individual I can sell a gun to anyone without doing a background check or paperwork but if that gun is used in a crime that is easily tracable back to me and my paper trail at the initial sale. There are new rules in place for the “private sale/gunshow loophole” to say when paperwork is mandatory but I haven’t read enough to have a good grasp of it